Talk:Caste-related violence in India

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[edit] Attacks on Dalits at Jhajjar, Haryana

I removed this section, since according to the links given, this is not a crime instigated by caste issues. This was not a case of lower-caste people being massacred by upper-caste people. It was an incident triggered by religious (and not caste) sentiments -- some extremist Hindus who regard cows as sacred killed people who were skinning a cow. utcursch | talk 11:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Religious sentiments ? You mean the Hindu religion? Does it include Dalits? Does it include communities whose traditional occupation is skinning of dead cows? Does it include the majority untouchable communities whose chief item of food is beef? What you mean by religious sentiment is just upper caste Hindu sentiment and the incident is definitely a caste related violence. El elan 05:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tamil Nadu

I modified this section considerably -- the last paragraph especially seems to have been written by a very casteist person with a clear anti-Dalit bias. The major issues I had with it are: Theories concerning these crimes against Dalits range from "alcohol bootleggers opposing prohibition movements among Dalits" to "inter-caste relations between an upper-caste Vanniya boy and a Dalit girl". -- this does not have a citation. In the next paragraph we have a statement that violence against Brahmins was systematically encouraged by Periyar -- nowhere in the Outlook article linked as a citation does it state that violence against Brahmins was systematically encouraged by Periyar Ramaswami. The next sentence doesn't seem to go anywhere and seems merely an excuse to throw in a link to an article about the Hindu Munnani party (which I have never heard of before). It seems to be a bit much to cite that the DMK is an anti-Hindu party by linking to an article about an opposition party claiming that the DMK is an anti-Hindu party. The same sentence fragment states that the rise to power of the DMK party resulted in discrimination against upper-castes in TN. He/she also talks about the "canard" of Brahmin oppression as though Brahmin oppression of the lower castes wasn't true. The poster seems to be prescribe to a very narrow view of Hinduism = Brahminism. Next we have the weasel-worded construction of many Brahmins claim that many Brahmins... I think this whole sentence is obviously problematic. The last sentence of the paragraph is also similarly weasel-worded: Some people have stated...

Kumquat85 (talk) 01:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)